Performer Ice-T will speak at 7:30 on Monday night in Forum Hall as part of Martin Luther King, Jr., Week activities from Sunday, Jan. 20, to Saturday, Jan. 26. Brandon Clark, Martin Luther King Jr. Planning Committee member and coordinator for multicultural programs for the K-State Alumni Association, said Ice-T's lecture should be interesting since he is not only a famous performer, but also a former gang member and an orphan. "He's part of Dr. King's dream - he started off with nothing but is now willing to give back to the community," Clark said. Historically black fraternity Alpha Phi Alpha, of which Dr. King was a member, will hold its annual candlelight vigil Monday evening following the Ice-T lecture. Clark who is also the fraternity's alpha adviser said the MLK committee is hoping a large amount of students will come to the vigil and lecture since there is no school on Monday. Careem Gladney, senior in finance and president of Alpha Phi Alpha, said the vigil helps students remember the past but also look toward the future to increase equality and diversity. "It's important [to have the vigil] so students can look at the past and then move forward into the future," Gladney said. Following the vigil, K-State's leadership studies department will hold a hot chocolate social, Gladney said. This year is the 40th anniversary of King's visit here on Jan. 19, 1968 before he was killed in April, Myra Gordon, associate provost for diversity and dual career development, said. King spoke at many schools, she said, but K-State had the privilege of hearing his last university speech. "K-State is extremely lucky," Gordon said. "We have benefited from the most evolved thinking of Dr. King. To me, that's the greatest honor." The university also will have a fundraising campaign called "Bring Forty to Celebrate Dr. King" on Thursday. The MLK Committee is encouraging every student organization to donate at least $40 to the campaign. The money will help fund the Coretta Scott King Gardens of Engagement, which will be built within the next few years outside of Ahearn Field House and will surround the bust of King that was dedicated last year. "This year is really about celebrating those 40 years since his speech," Clark. "K-State should take pride in that and take part in at least one activity and remember the life and legacy that he lived." On Monday at 8 a.m., community members, students and faculty will meet for a prayer breakfast at the Clarion Hotel. Starting at 10 a.m. Monday, music, a job fair, volunteer activities, and other events will take place at Manhattan Town Center all day. A film showing on Wednesday at 11:30 a.m. in the Union's Grand Ballroom Another will be another event for students to mark on their calendars. "February One: The Story of the Greensboro Four" is a civil rights documentary that tells the story of four college students who sat down at a lunch counter in North Carolina in 1960 and thereby became part of the civil rights movement. "The men [the Greensboro four] talk about how they were thinking then versus how they are thinking now," Gordon said. "College students played a tremendous role in the civil rights movement." Clark said the MLK Planning Committee has worked hard to provide events that will be inviting and intriguing for students. "We do this knowing we have come a very long way from 40 years ago, but we still have a long way to go," Clark said. "The very least you can do is come out and attend one of the many events. This week is for you, the students. Learn something new."